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Monday, July 05, 2004

White privilege You have the freedom to remain ignorant, the freedom to be seen as an individual, the freedom to lie freely about others, without being called on it. You have the freedom to never have to justify your existence. You have the freedom of being assumed to belong anywhere. You have the freedom to have people automatically think you are smart and worthy.

You have the freedom to think that your people are the only ones that matter, whether you choose to take it or not, you have the freedom to have your history respected, you have the freedom to have rights, without people complaining about them, you have the freedom to assume you are the norm. You have the freedom to think your history is the only history. You have the freedom to have accumulated wealth off of the backs of others, and then make excuses about it.

You have the freedom to think you are the only people to have ever written. You have the freedom to think that the status quo is the way everything has to be always. You have the freedom to believe that you have no agency, and no part in the way things turn out.

You have the freedom to think that the past is another country. You have the freedom to think you are smarter than everyone else. You have the freedom to run with a head wind at your back, never understanding its influence.